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David Waldstreicher

@dwaldstreicher.bsky.social

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Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 21h

A little thing, riffing on the great Robin D.G. Kelley (and Noam Chomsky).

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/david-waldstreicher/

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review

The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 6d

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 7d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11d

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle the lawsuit brought by President Trump against the company for suspending his account.

Most of the funds will go towards the fund the president setup for the White House ballroom.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/46IT4P1

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 12d

I would like to talk with you about this sometime!

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Ph.D. Program in History at The CUNY Graduate Center @historygc.bsky.social · 15d

🚨Interested in American Studies? Curious about how others lean into their scholarship in this current political climate?
Join scholars, writers, and students practicing various aspects of American Studies.
⭐History faculty members David Waldstreicher and David Reynolds will be among the speakers.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17d

This is great piece about the contradictions of unitary executive theory. I’ve always struggled to understand why powerful people take it seriously and the obvious answer is that it takes powerful people seriously.

There is something odd, however, about a democratic accountability that relies on maximalist claims of executive power and the subversion of congressional statutes. It seems positively strange, in fact, to have to point out that Congress - a coequal branch of government with more power at its disposal than any of the others — is democratically elected. But it's true.
Majorities of Congress are, in fact, democratically elected alongside the president. And where the public only has one chance every four years to choose a president, it has one chance every two years to choose a Congress.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18d

a most useful+dialectical philosopher, on shame +decency

"seeing this kind of basic social norm enforcement as fundamentally at odds with living in a free country is deeply delusional...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence."

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 19d

"A new survey shows that while most Jews are concerned about antisemitism on campus, “three-fourths of the sample view the Trump administration as using antisemitism as an excuse.”1 We are the majority."

www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

Most American Jews say Trump is using antisemitism as an 'excuse' to silence free speech at universities

Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

www.npr.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19d

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

www.theguardian.com

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slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 19d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 19d

Ah now we know why you have the highest Colleague Above RePlacement numbers ever.

David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 20d

only if exchangeable for a bitcoin

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20d

Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening right in front of us every day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 20d

LMAO WUT

Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue

Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines

www.theguardian.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24d

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.

That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.

My latest

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump

The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

www.arcdigital.media

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26d

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27d

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 28d

Founders discourse defined.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28d

If your point depends on you and your readers not knowing too much about your subject, it may not be a good point

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28d

If your point depends on you and your readers not knowing too much about your subject, it may not be a good point

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 28d

OSU faculty and staff on the tragedy of our current violent, polarized, hyper-politicized moment and era #Lantern www.thelantern.com/2025/09/ohio...

Ohio State professors share insight on political violence following Charlie Kirk’s assassination

An increase in party polarization and bipartisan political violence are the top reasons Ohio State experts in political science and extremism attribute to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. A right-wing ac...

www.thelantern.com

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 29d

NYT Is Doing Op-Ed Pages the Wrong Way

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”

So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Israeli right's postulation of a meaningful concept of "Judeo-Christian civilization" conflicts with their Judeo-pessimist attempt to postulate an eternal anti-Judaism in the world, so criticism of the modern state of Israel can be conflated with medieval blood libels.